November 4, 2025 • 32 mins
On this episode of The Andy Reismeyer Show, KTLA’s Frank Buckley joins Andy to celebrate the Dodgers’ big win, debate why men think they can land planes, and react to Shohei Ohtani finally speaking English. They also dive into the wild story of a Mississippi woman who killed an escaped monkey carrying multiple diseases, and close things out by honoring the few Sizzler restaurants still standing—R.I.P. Ponderosa
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I am six forty, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Andy Reesmire with you on this Monday, November third.
Celebration is in the air. We're feeling it, baby, just
past seven o'clock. I'll be with you all the way
till ten. Joining us now though, because he's got to
go to bed soon, so he's doing me a huge
favor on the line. Mister KTLA anchorman, Frank Buckley, big
(00:31):
Time Buckley, good evening and welcome to the program Sir.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Is that my name, big Time Buckley.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's yeah, that's what you told the screener. Andy must
refer to me as big time Buckley.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
What I told the screener was to tell him to
tell you to leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Well, thank you for doing this.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I know this is a huge deal for the KTLA
Morning News today in a day that was very exciting
for Los angele list because there you were, with the
entire ktly Morning News except maybe one person named you Andy,
downtown and enjoying and celebrating the boys in blue. How
did that feel today?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
It was absolutely fantastic. You know, we we we got
up early.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We got down there and and I thought, is anyone
really gonna you know, obviously we do people who show
up because we did this last year and it's terrific,
but would they be down there when we got there,
you know, around six o'clock and it was already you know,
people were already lying the streets and uh. And when
the buses finally came five hours later, you know, the
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the the crowd was you know, maybe ten ten deep
on the sidewalk, and the noise, the cophony of sound
was it was amazing.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
It was. It was deafening.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I mean, Jessica and I were trying Mark, we were
trying to sort of describe what we were seeing, and
we could barely hear a thing because it was just
so loud.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I remember, I remember watching and being like, why don't
they turn down the crowd microphone? And then realized that
that's just how loud it was because it was being
picked up on all the individual microphones you guys were holding.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think that something that's so.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Exciting about this is that, you know, like you said,
we were there last year, does this feel different maybe,
especially because it was such a hard fought World Series.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
It did feel different. Last year was was terrific. It
was exciting.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Last year we were down at Grand Park and the
crowds were sort of you know, jammed into the park
and then then along.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
The parade route.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And this year, I think because of the nature of
the World Series and how every game we were all
on the edge of our seat, and how it really
came down to the very end in Game seven, that
you know, the entire region, not just LA I think
everybody in southern California who's a Dodger fan wanted to
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be here to celebrate.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
With the team because we've all been.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
With them through this journey and and man, it was
it was just it was really terrific. You know, there's
so few things that bring us together in La well,
and this really did.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
What's remarkable is that you know, you're a Padres fan,
well known and and for you, no I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But Andy, this will be the last time I ever
saw either on the radio or on DV.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I gotta imagine though, and you know, I know you
haven't had a lot of chance to sort of reflect
on what happened on Friday on television or in a
broadcast platform since it happened, but you know, like you
were saying, though, very special for Southern California, very special
for I think people who are Dodgers fans, but also
who can see this as a representation this team rather
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as a representation really not just in Southern California, but
of the world.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well, yeah, I mean, you know, and three of the
the star players are are are from Japan. You have,
like l a. It is a melting pot of players
who really you know, you get the sense, and you
don't get the sense on a lot of professional teams
that these guys like each other. Yeah, and they're and
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they have each other's backs, and they want their teammates
to do well because it's it's.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
For the betterment of the whole team.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And and you just feel that every time you see
them out there and they you know, they're acting like
boys and and that's what we want, you know, we
we we all think about our own experiences playing ball
and and that joy and and you know, they still
have it and and I think that we can all
live through them, and and that's part of this we
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were talking.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
One of the.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Highlights, one of the highlights for me of the series
is you know, there's always a guy who you don't
really know too much about and he's suddenly, you know,
a superstar. The picture the pitcher Will Climb.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yes, did you know who Bill Klein was before this series?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Of course not, of course not. And you know he's
a Hoosier. He's from Indiana. Wow, I know, and I
know everybody in Indiana.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, but this guy, you know, he comes in in
that eighteen inning marathon game and you.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Think, oh my god, they're down to the last picture.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Who's this guy Will Climb? Oh no, it's going to
be over. This guy pitches four innings and kills it
and also killed it with joy.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Ye know, he was he was a guy.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I mean he's literally smiling while he was pitching in
the most pressure packed situation that any pitcher could face.
And he came in there same game, you know, Kershaw
comes in and pitches the one guy he gets his
you know, World Series curtain call. It's just this series
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was so exciting.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It was Yeah, it's incredible because you know, you just
want a good ball game and you got that. Ye
every single game, maybe not Game five will Game one
was not great for us either, But you know, you
look through the series, though, and it's like, you know,
kind of like I've been saying this, it was like
like the NBA Finals last year between the Pacers and
the Oklahoma City Thunder, where you thought, whoever has the
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ball last is just going to win this and you
were just watching because you saw these two teams that
are incredible. And I know that there was a lot
of conversation last I guess last week Dave Roberts answering
the question of did the Dodgers ruin baseball? And I
know that you were sort of involved in that conversation too,
and it's like here he said, like, look, we're going
to ruin it again and go all the way to
Game seven and win the series. And I think that
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you know, you can obviously put a lot of stock
in how much money the Dodgers have to pay their players.
Obviously it's a lot of money, but you still got
to get out there and win. And it was not
it was not a complete clean sweep.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
No, And and you know, you had teams with very
small payrolls up against the Dodgers challenging them. And to
anyone who says they're they're ruining baseball, look at the
numbers look at the attendance figures, look at.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
You know, the revenue coming into the game. They're not
ruining baseball.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
They're making it more exciting for other people. They're they're
you know, it's it's like going to a feature film
with big stars in it versus going to a you know,
maybe a film that has people in it that you
don't know, and it's the story's okay, but it's not great.
This is going to a blockbuster every time you watch
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the Dodgers play, and so more people are coming into
the tent, not fewer, and and so I think that
this idea that they've ruined baseball is absurd.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, it's crazy. I'll tell you what, Frank. I appreciate you, Colin.
I appreciate you being available to us. I know you've
got to run and go to sleep. But just as
you as you your head hits the pillow tonight, what
are you always going to remember about today and being
down there and seeing the response from the people who
just love this team so much, they love la so much.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I just think that it's it's that explosion of sound
and joy. And I posted one of the pictures on Instagram,
just the buses coming down Grand the confetti flying through
the air, the sound of pure joy from fans of
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the Dodgers, and these guys on the buses with their
families smiling and laughing and and and really sort of
vibing back and forth with the fans.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
It was just a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, we got to give it to Glenn Walker's belly
because that obviously was the good luck charm that we
I guess created it.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
And thanks for thanks for giving me that image. My
head hits the pillow.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well we aim to please here, mister Buckley, there we goes.
Thank you so much for being a part of the
show this evening. I really appreciate you. Maybe I'll be
there next year. Who's to say. I'll put it in
my request right now. Thanks KTLA Morning News anchor Frank Buckley,
who is of course down there with the KTLA Morning
News celebrating the Dodgers on that parade through downtown Los Angeles.
(09:22):
More to come here on KFI. We're talking Dodgers, We're
talking some interesting developments. Is it possible that show? Hey, O,
TONI speaks really good English. We'll get into it. I
am six forty. Are we playing that funky music, white man,
Is that what's happening right now?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
No, I just want to thank you for letting me.
Oh that's what it is?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, that era of disco escapes me a
little bit sometimes. I am six forty live everywhere in
the iHeart Radio app. I'm Andy Reesemeyer. I did you know,
as a kid in the nineties, I think I understood
disco for its just its catchiness. I didn't understand any
sort of cultural like what it meant to a lot
(10:06):
of people in terms of like they really didn't like it.
I didn't understand that. I remember watching the movie Airplane
back in the day. There's that great sequence where they're
doing Staying Alive, you know, and he's doing the dance
he's doing John Travolta, and I remember thinking, that's the
coolest thing I've ever seen. Only, you know, many years later,
realized that was a joke. But that's how it goes,
(10:26):
I guess. By the way, speaking of airplanes, tomorrow morning
on the KTLA Morning News, you may have seen the
promos running all day you will see if I can
land an airplane. I saw you on TV. That was
funny and then neat. I'm very very lucky to have
this job. I can do all kinds of cool stuff.
And one of the things that we've talked about before
is that fifty percent of med think that in cases
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of emergency or in the case of an emergency, rather
they can land an airplane. You know, the pilot pops
out or the flight attendant rather gets on the on
the horn says the pilot had the fish, the co
pilot had the fish. Is there anybody on board who
can land this plane? Surely you can't be serious, I
am stop calling me, Shirley Roner. Do you think you
could do it? Well, Reese Meyer, I would prefer not
(11:11):
to try. Well, yeah, we're we're not like willing this
to happen. I mean, I don't want to try open
heart surgery on somebody either. There are things that professionals
do for a reason. This is totally true. I think
I'm more excited to try to land an airplane than
I would be to do open heart surgery. Yeah, yeah,
because and I think that that's maybe because when you're
(11:31):
more lives at stake, you like that. Well, listen, it's
a it's a mutually assured destruction.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Okay, I think I get your attitude.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You know, if I if I screw up in the
plane situation, it's all over. If I screw up in
the in the the I almost said the iHeart open,
iHeart open surgery, the open heart surgery. Then you know
the kind of lawsuits that come after that. I got
to like tactfully resign from my job. Why was I
in that situation to begin with?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I know we're deep into an anti expert phase of
US history, but I think there's just certain things that
I want the experts to do that I should stay
way the Hello, wait, like engineering, I don't think I
should have any part of.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
No bridge building, leave it to the bridge builders.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Anything to do with nukes, probably let somebody with training
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
No, that doesn't feel That doesn't feel exciting to me either.
That doesn't feel sexy, you know, Like to me, landing
an airplane is like a cool ice man. You know,
it's like that vibe a mushroom cloud.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Not so much.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
No, I played Microsoft Flight Simulator. I mean both, buddy, Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. So I went to a place
called we Fly in Pasadena and I tried it. I
tried it on their seven thirty seven simulator, and you
got to watch the KTLA Morning News tomorrow eight thirty
to find out if I survived. Wait, that was a simulator. Yeah,
I mean, do you think they would have let me fly?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
It looked real. I mean, I want to go to
this thing now that actually looked real.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
They didn't let me come to the Dodgers parade, let
alone put me behind the controls of a fifty million
dollar aircraft.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Well how about Assessna make sure.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, that's again one of those mutually assured destruction things
where the relative damage is a lot lower. But it
was cool and like you, Sam, I have also I
grew up playing video games. I grew up playing flight simulator,
and I do like airplanes, so maybe that puts me
in a little bit of an advantage, but it was
really cool. The guys that we fly Pasadena were able
to set aside some time for us to go check
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out the simulator and do our worst as they say,
so that will be going up tomorrow as well, in
addition to the broadcast, also on the Instagram account at
Andy KTLA, which you can reach me by the way
if you'd like to. On the Instagram account, or you
can find me on a Kfi app. Leave a little message,
a little talk back message, look for the microphone, and
(13:47):
let us know what we've what we've got wrong so far.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I played Top Gun on Nintendo.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Yeah, landing the plane on the flight deck in that
game was one of the hardest things that you can do.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Trust me, real landing of a plane. Got nothing on this. Okay,
I didn't want to have to play this card, but
I'm just gonna lay it out here. Richard Bach, the
author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, took me up in his
plane and he handed me the controls and I flew
it for a good long time. Hey, and when you're
in the air and you don't have to worry about
landing or taking off, it's pretty easy when there's nothing
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else around. I got to worry about it hidden, and
so I would you give the handle handles? You know,
a little jerk like, Hey, how do you like that?
You won't want to have me try this. Let's let's
see what you think of this.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, you know, I think it is kind of I
obviously it's a very it's a highly skilled job. Nobody
can just pop into an airplane and fly. But I
think that there is something maybe intuitive about it. If
you if you drive a car, you know, I mean,
you're kind of doing similar things. I'm sure there's pilots
who are like, shut up, you are so wrong. But
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I've always felt that it came to me in a
sort of natural way.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Well, it was not lost on me that when he
handed me the controls, we were like in the middle
of a lake and a forest, and there was absolutely
no other sign of life anywhere near it. Like, if
we were gonna go down, we weren't gonna take anybody
with us.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Sure, I'm glad for legal purposes you added that part
to the story. You weren't ever over a congested metropolitan
Seattle or anything.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Like that that might have been reckless. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Hey, by the way, I know we talked about Sizzler
last week. We're gonna get to that in a little bit.
And why Sizzler might be winning the casual steakhouse wars. Yes,
apparently they are being fought on freeway exits across America.
We'll get to that, But I'm gonna go back to
the Dodgers today because this is so interesting. This was
something that was trending on the internet. There's been a
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lot of conversations because one of the spectacles of watching
interviews postgame interviews with show Hey o Taani is that
obviously he's communicating through a translator, and everyone's always like,
and I don't know if you've heard this too, but
everyone's like, he can speak English, right, Like, can't he
speak English? Maybe he can, maybe he can't. Maybe he's
gonna learn English, I don't know. And it started to
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become something that I was fixated on when I saw
this exchange. He had done an interview I think after
game seven, and of course he had done the interview
with the help of the translator, and so they asked
him a question in English, it gets translated into Japanese,
and then show Hey responds to Japanese and then they
the translator, of course, puts it back to English. At
the end of the interview, they said thanks show Hey,
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thanks so much, good job, great job, World series. And
this is what he said, Thank you, guys, thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Did you catch that? Thank you guys, thank you tonight.
It's like a one flow over the cuckoo's nest thing.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That sounded like perfect, like he was just a bro
from Anaheim.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Thank you guys, thank you right shout out to my homies,
like did he slip? So I'm thinking, I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Like, oh my god, this guy speaks English, and I
think that it started to get out and that clip
went viral a little bit. People said I knew it,
someone even saying he might be able to speak perfectly
good English or passable English and using a translator essentially
allows him to be respectful of the American language.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I don't know. It's a theory.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And before we go to break, here was Showy earlier
today doing a bit of a speech at the victory
celebration at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Listen, he is so oh time.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
There's that walkout song.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Hello Hello.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I want to say that I'm so fun I'm his team.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
And then I want to say you guys had a
great as of fancy no I and I'm already I'm
ready to get a another.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Let's see you, let's come, let's go all right. So,
I don't know, maybe not completely fluent, but that's pretty good.
I understood, very exciting. Okay, coming up, we're talking about
Steakhouse's discount Steakhouse chains and how they're doing across this country.
Plus that escape monkey that he was found. Story doesn't
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end well if you're looking for a Pixar ending. By
the way, it's KFIM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It feels good. SKFI AM six forty. Andy Reesemire here
with you. Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app as well.
And if you want to listen to old episodes or
past episodes, and I'm not sure you could call them
old because they're uploaded like the day of, but you
can listen to past episodes on Spotify or the iHeart
(18:57):
Radio app, also available on the Apple Podcast app. It's
very fun. It's cool to go back and listen. I
like to go back and listen to the show, you know,
to sort of get a little get a little perspective
on what I was saying, what I was talking about,
Get I laugh at Ronner's jokes once again.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Are they funnier the second time around? A little? Really?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, it's more like I can I could be in
the audience. No, I'm kidding. I what a psychopath? Can
you imagine? If you like I was listening to this
show like every day going. I listened every once in
a while to see, like how you know, truly to
critique myself, but I don't listening just for fun would
be weird. I always thought it was odd because when
I was in a band back in the day, this
was at a time when you didn't have like streaming services.
(19:42):
Everything was sort of done on CDs. So you would
like make a mix in this in the studio, and
in order to check the mix in the car, right,
That's how like all music needs to be checked in
the car. You gotta check it in the car after
you record in the studio. It always sounds good in
the studio. But then if you know, you can pick
up on stuff in your car. That's why the car
test is so important. But you'd always have to burn
(20:04):
a CDR, so you would always have the hundreds and
hundreds of these cd rs that just were rolling around
the car or whatever that had you know, like andy
song mixed for more vocals or like base two loud
or you know, written in sharpie, and it was like
you had to do that. But I remember being in
the car and like going on a date, like after
(20:24):
high school, and like switched over from the radio and
it just starts playing my own dumb band and I'm like, oh, sorry.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Excuse me, it's a smooth movie.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I'm sorry about burs.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Turning it up.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Whoops. Yeah, and uh I was unlucky in love for
many years. But maybe it made for some good music.
So I don't know. You suffer for your art. I
suffer for my art. That is right, speaking of suffering
for art. An update on that story about those monkeys
that escaped in Mississippi. Do you remember this last week?
There was a semi truck that was carrying a bunch
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of Reesis monkeys. They were being housed at the Tulane
University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, and they
were scrolling along there in Heidelberg, Mississippi, when the truck
crashed and a handful of these Reeseis monkeys escaped. They
got out a few of them sadly. I don't know,
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it feels sad to me because it's a bummer, you know,
it's a bummer that these monkeys were having a live
where they were maybe being tested, they were used for
research purposes. A few of them were euthanized there along
the roadway, but a couple of them escaped and were
just running wild. And if you remember, the county Sheriff's
department at the time had said that they were infected
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with I believe hepatitis, COVID and herpes.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
A bad combo.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That's a tough night.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Did they shoot the herpes monkey? Okay?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Well, then Tulane said they weren't sick or they were
said to be not contagious. This is a very important specific, you.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Know, I've heard that line before. Yeah, better safe than
sorry when it comes to wild monkey's on the loose,
not contagious.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But anyway, a couple of days go by, and unfortunately, unfortunately,
we know what happened to one of the missing monkeys.
Jessica bon Ferguson, a homeowner in Heidelberg, Mississippi, was alerted
Sunday early Sunday morning by her sixteen year old son,
who said he thought he had seen a monkey running
in the yard outside of their home with a cold
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sore on his He was coffee, he was wearing a
mask in coughing. He kept taking tests and being like,
I know that the line, you can see it, but
it's very faint. It's very faint. So she got out
of bed like any person in rural Mississippi, I'm assuming
we do, grabbed her firearm, and then she went after
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the monkey. Monkey was about sixty feet away. She said,
I did what any other mother would do to protect
her children, because she says she and other people in
the neighborhood have been warned about the diseases that the
escape monkeys carried. So she fired her gun. She said,
I shot at it and it stood there. I shot again,
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and he backed up, and that's when he fell. Jasper
County Sheriff's office confirmed in a social media post that
a homeowner had found one of the monkeys, but they
did not say anymore. There were more, no more details
this time after the first time that we heard that
they had let out a bunch of diseased Reese's monkeys.
Apparently now we're being mom on what's the what the
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details are there?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
So okay, So you know that Patrick's side is the
word for killing your father, at Mattter's side killing your mother,
And there's all sorts of different names and killing different things.
You know what the word is for killing monkeys? What
is a monkey side? Is it? Really?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It's like just what it is you said.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
No, no, no, that's the word. That's actually just what
it is.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Oh no, great, all right, Well on that note, that's
the that's the kind of news that I wanted to
do when I got into this industry.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
And the monkey's like, you really don't need to worry
about anything unless it's a flare up. Please don't shoot out.
It's I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
If I am six forty, we're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app on Andy Reesmier. Thanks for being with us
on this Monday evening, November three. Portions of the program
are prerecorded. But this is not one of those portions.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Right right, No it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Hey, mister Ronner, Yes, mister Reesemeyer, you know, we had
a lot of fun talking about Sizzler last week.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
How could you not? We could do all show on Sizsler.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
If you don't remember, I just want to bring you
into this here real quick, Richie. Did you know about Sizzler? Yeah,
I produced it for you. You were here that night, Yeah,
no you weren't. Yeah, we started taking calls. No it
was Toddler, wasn't it. It was it was you.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Okay, I'm sorry. I'm a terrible friend. It's a good
thing he's got such healthy self esteem.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, because how awful of a diva?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Just a tyrant, just a tad bit. Okay, So remember Richie.
This moment from nineteen ninety one a promotional commercial. I
don't know where they used this, but it's four minutes
and forty one seconds long. You can find it on YouTube.
It's called Sizzler promotional commercial and it's all about the
joys of how American Sizzler really is.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Choices, the choice.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Choices, choices every day. So the assumption here was that
you might go to Sissler every day.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
That is a rousing and emotional anthem. It's not just
a song, it's an anthem. To turn it down a
little bit. It's so harsh. I wanted to take out
Sizzler and sing that.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You know, I guarantee you nobody at the Sizzler would
have a clue, but they might appreciate your performance.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I don't know why that didn't catch on, like the
I'd like to buy the world a coke song. Yes,
that's a hell of a song. I'll tell you what we.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Have given whoever is wrote this song more airplay in
the past two weeks than of all times, and this
song has ever been heard of all time, I think.
But Sizzler, you know, it's just one of the sort
of discount steakhouses that, as we found out, actually he's
doing okay relatively speaking. Right, we thought Sizzler was for
sure out of business, but we had a lot of
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people call and saying, no, there's one in Van Eyes,
there's one in Woodland Hills, there's one in Arlita, I think,
and lo and behold, they'rebsolutely right. There's a lot of
Sisslers out there. But Ponderosa is not doing so well.
Do you remember Ponderosa?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It might have also been called a Bonanza.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
After the TV show.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yes, it was started in nineteen sixty five. And where
do you guess where? Could you guess where might I
put a story that would be from? Where I might
also be from? I give up Indiana? Okay, So yeah,
they made a steakhouse in Indiana called Bonanza based on
the television show. Right nineteen sixty five. This was probably groundbreaking.
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It was legendary, and of course it was great because
it was a low cost option to you know, go
to a sort of somewhat fancy. You know, it's not
like your filet mignon, but to have like a nice
steak of potato situation. Of course there was h is
this bonanza? Oh yeah, of.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Course was this song playing as you ate steak?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I hope it was. This is up there with with
the Sizzler song, which you'd have a bracket of good
old restaurant songs and see who would win. Even good
in the neighborhood's got to be up there. What is
that applebee that's Applebee's, okay? And then Applebee's has a
new song which I do not subscribe to bet Jillian
(28:15):
and date not anything you know I talk about.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't care for that Applebee's anything like, No, I'm
not for it. But does Pondorosa is struggling? They are
now down to I guess something like twenty restaurants, and
Ponderosa was pretty common. I think back in the nineties
they had like seven hundred locations across the country.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
We must save them. It's what Haws and Little John
would want you to do. That's right.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Here's the challenge this week. I want everybody listening, go
ahead and go on OpenTable dot com, call your American
Express Rezie hook up and get yourself a table at
the Ponderosa on Tuesday, the Sizzler on Wednesday, back to
Pondorosa on Thursday, and then maybe throwing a little Applebee's
on Friday with the chicken fry.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But and it's a bummer because it was also a
great opportunity. And you got to think these restaurants nowadays
are so expensive that that the middle ground really feels
like a fertile place to be where you can have
a competent meal, a Boston market quality meal for not
a crazy price.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
By the way, it's Little Joe. I was mistaken and said, okay,
Little John. It's Little Joe.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Little John is a completely different situation. You don't want
to go to the Little John after a Ponderosa meal. No,
that's right, you don't. You might, you might not have
a choice in certain places. The last thing I'll say
here on that note about Ponderosa is that when I
was a kid, we had a Ponderosa that we would
go to in Castleton, Indianapolis. It was like in the
parking lot of the mall, you know, I mean, that's
how everything is out there, and Ponderosa was a big
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deal because we didn't really go out to eat as kids.
You know, it was like a big deal to go
out to eat. So we went to this Ponderosa and
you'd wait in line and they gave you one of it. It
was like a buffet situation. So you got a tray
and you go through the line and you put your
your food on these bits big old hot ceramic plates.
You know, they like pop up from the little tray,
you know, and you get a new one, and then
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another one comes cascading up. It's like it's fat stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
And as a kid, it's incredible and you think.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
All this food. I could eat all this food.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
And we're waiting in line, and I was probably four
or five, I don't know, very young, like like I
kind of remember this happening in real life, or I
might just remember it because the story was told so
much throughout throughout my life. Some kid is walking by
with a plate, a tray full of those plates, dirty ones,
and he slips on the terra cotta tile and those
(30:39):
plates go fly in, crashing everywhere. And as a four
or five year old, that's horrifying. That's the scariest thing
you've ever heard, and to this day my family, anytime
a plate breaks anywhere, it is absolutely necessary if you're
a respired to say, proclaim Ponderosa.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Nice. See you never saw Old Hop sing do that
on the show.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, imagine if it had been Bananza at least that
would have made more sense. You imagine a whole group
of people nowadays at a restaurant somewhere somebody drops a
plate on the other side and everyone at the table goes, ponderosa.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I want a bunch of dweebs. Oh that's your restaurant
entertainment right there. You kidding.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Somebody goes homes like man, there was the weirdest thing
I ever saw at does applebe'st tonight so much coming
up in the next hour, We're going to open those
phone lines in a little bit and I'm going to
have a prompt if you want to call and be
on the show. We love hearing from you. We were
doing favorite movies of All Time, remember that that was
a good one. We had a lot of great calls
on that. We did restaurants, we did classic restaurants. We'll
(31:44):
talk about what we were going to have you call
and talk about in the eight o'clock hour, plus what
is tunnel mode? Why is Portia now coming out with
a tunnel mode? And then the latest on of course
some election news. Got a big election happening tomorrow California.
Of course, we're keeping track of Prop fifty and also
looking at that mayoral race in New York City. It's
(32:05):
all coming up in the next hour here on KFI
AM six forty, We're we live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
I am six forty, We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Andy Reesmire with you on this Monday, November third.
Celebration is in the air. We're feeling it, baby, just
past seven o'clock. I'll be with you all the way
till ten. Joining us now though, because he's got to
go to bed soon, so he's doing me a huge
favor on the line. Mister KTLA anchorman, Frank Buckley, big
(00:31):
Time Buckley, good evening and welcome to the program Sir.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Is that my name, big Time Buckley.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's yeah, that's what you told the screener. Andy must
refer to me as big time Buckley.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
What I told the screener was to tell him to
tell you to leave me alone.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Well, thank you for doing this.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I know this is a huge deal for the KTLA
Morning News today in a day that was very exciting
for Los angele list because there you were, with the
entire ktly Morning News except maybe one person named you Andy,
downtown and enjoying and celebrating the boys in blue. How
did that feel today?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
It was absolutely fantastic. You know, we we we got
up early.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We got down there and and I thought, is anyone
really gonna you know, obviously we do people who show
up because we did this last year and it's terrific,
but would they be down there when we got there,
you know, around six o'clock and it was already you know,
people were already lying the streets and uh. And when
the buses finally came five hours later, you know, the
(01:41):
the the crowd was you know, maybe ten ten deep
on the sidewalk, and the noise, the cophony of sound
was it was amazing.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
It was. It was deafening.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I mean, Jessica and I were trying Mark, we were
trying to sort of describe what we were seeing, and
we could barely hear a thing because it was just
so loud.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I remember, I remember watching and being like, why don't
they turn down the crowd microphone? And then realized that
that's just how loud it was because it was being
picked up on all the individual microphones you guys were holding.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think that something that's so.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Exciting about this is that, you know, like you said,
we were there last year, does this feel different maybe,
especially because it was such a hard fought World Series.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
It did feel different. Last year was was terrific. It
was exciting.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Last year we were down at Grand Park and the
crowds were sort of you know, jammed into the park
and then then along.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
The parade route.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And this year, I think because of the nature of
the World Series and how every game we were all
on the edge of our seat, and how it really
came down to the very end in Game seven, that
you know, the entire region, not just LA I think
everybody in southern California who's a Dodger fan wanted to
(03:07):
be here to celebrate.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
With the team because we've all been.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
With them through this journey and and man, it was
it was just it was really terrific. You know, there's
so few things that bring us together in La well,
and this really did.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
What's remarkable is that you know, you're a Padres fan,
well known and and for you, no I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But Andy, this will be the last time I ever
saw either on the radio or on DV.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I gotta imagine though, and you know, I know you
haven't had a lot of chance to sort of reflect
on what happened on Friday on television or in a
broadcast platform since it happened, but you know, like you
were saying, though, very special for Southern California, very special
for I think people who are Dodgers fans, but also
who can see this as a representation this team rather
(03:59):
as a representation really not just in Southern California, but
of the world.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well, yeah, I mean, you know, and three of the
the star players are are are from Japan. You have,
like l a. It is a melting pot of players
who really you know, you get the sense, and you
don't get the sense on a lot of professional teams
that these guys like each other. Yeah, and they're and
(04:25):
they have each other's backs, and they want their teammates
to do well because it's it's.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
For the betterment of the whole team.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And and you just feel that every time you see
them out there and they you know, they're acting like
boys and and that's what we want, you know, we
we we all think about our own experiences playing ball
and and that joy and and you know, they still
have it and and I think that we can all
live through them, and and that's part of this we
(04:54):
were talking.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
One of the.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Highlights, one of the highlights for me of the series
is you know, there's always a guy who you don't
really know too much about and he's suddenly, you know,
a superstar. The picture the pitcher Will Climb.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Yes, did you know who Bill Klein was before this series?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Of course not, of course not. And you know he's
a Hoosier. He's from Indiana. Wow, I know, and I
know everybody in Indiana.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
No, but this guy, you know, he comes in in
that eighteen inning marathon game and you.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Think, oh my god, they're down to the last picture.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Who's this guy Will Climb? Oh no, it's going to
be over. This guy pitches four innings and kills it
and also killed it with joy.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Ye know, he was he was a guy.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
I mean he's literally smiling while he was pitching in
the most pressure packed situation that any pitcher could face.
And he came in there same game, you know, Kershaw
comes in and pitches the one guy he gets his
you know, World Series curtain call. It's just this series
(06:03):
was so exciting.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It was Yeah, it's incredible because you know, you just
want a good ball game and you got that. Ye
every single game, maybe not Game five will Game one
was not great for us either, But you know, you
look through the series, though, and it's like, you know,
kind of like I've been saying this, it was like
like the NBA Finals last year between the Pacers and
the Oklahoma City Thunder, where you thought, whoever has the
(06:27):
ball last is just going to win this and you
were just watching because you saw these two teams that
are incredible. And I know that there was a lot
of conversation last I guess last week Dave Roberts answering
the question of did the Dodgers ruin baseball? And I
know that you were sort of involved in that conversation too,
and it's like here he said, like, look, we're going
to ruin it again and go all the way to
Game seven and win the series. And I think that
(06:49):
you know, you can obviously put a lot of stock
in how much money the Dodgers have to pay their players.
Obviously it's a lot of money, but you still got
to get out there and win. And it was not
it was not a complete clean sweep.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
No, And and you know, you had teams with very
small payrolls up against the Dodgers challenging them. And to
anyone who says they're they're ruining baseball, look at the
numbers look at the attendance figures, look at.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
You know, the revenue coming into the game. They're not
ruining baseball.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
They're making it more exciting for other people. They're they're
you know, it's it's like going to a feature film
with big stars in it versus going to a you know,
maybe a film that has people in it that you
don't know, and it's the story's okay, but it's not great.
This is going to a blockbuster every time you watch
(07:44):
the Dodgers play, and so more people are coming into
the tent, not fewer, and and so I think that
this idea that they've ruined baseball is absurd.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, it's crazy. I'll tell you what, Frank. I appreciate you, Colin.
I appreciate you being available to us. I know you've
got to run and go to sleep. But just as
you as you your head hits the pillow tonight, what
are you always going to remember about today and being
down there and seeing the response from the people who
just love this team so much, they love la so much.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I just think that it's it's that explosion of sound
and joy. And I posted one of the pictures on Instagram,
just the buses coming down Grand the confetti flying through
the air, the sound of pure joy from fans of
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the Dodgers, and these guys on the buses with their
families smiling and laughing and and and really sort of
vibing back and forth with the fans.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
It was just a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, we got to give it to Glenn Walker's belly
because that obviously was the good luck charm that we
I guess created it.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
And thanks for thanks for giving me that image. My
head hits the pillow.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well we aim to please here, mister Buckley, there we goes.
Thank you so much for being a part of the
show this evening. I really appreciate you. Maybe I'll be
there next year. Who's to say. I'll put it in
my request right now. Thanks KTLA Morning News anchor Frank Buckley,
who is of course down there with the KTLA Morning
News celebrating the Dodgers on that parade through downtown Los Angeles.
(09:22):
More to come here on KFI. We're talking Dodgers, We're
talking some interesting developments. Is it possible that show? Hey, O,
TONI speaks really good English. We'll get into it. I
am six forty. Are we playing that funky music, white man,
Is that what's happening right now?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Is that what that is?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
No, I just want to thank you for letting me.
Oh that's what it is?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, that era of disco escapes me a
little bit sometimes. I am six forty live everywhere in
the iHeart Radio app. I'm Andy Reesemeyer. I did you know,
as a kid in the nineties, I think I understood
disco for its just its catchiness. I didn't understand any
sort of cultural like what it meant to a lot
(10:06):
of people in terms of like they really didn't like it.
I didn't understand that. I remember watching the movie Airplane
back in the day. There's that great sequence where they're
doing Staying Alive, you know, and he's doing the dance
he's doing John Travolta, and I remember thinking, that's the
coolest thing I've ever seen. Only, you know, many years later,
realized that was a joke. But that's how it goes,
(10:26):
I guess. By the way, speaking of airplanes, tomorrow morning
on the KTLA Morning News, you may have seen the
promos running all day you will see if I can
land an airplane. I saw you on TV. That was
funny and then neat. I'm very very lucky to have
this job. I can do all kinds of cool stuff.
And one of the things that we've talked about before
is that fifty percent of med think that in cases
(10:48):
of emergency or in the case of an emergency, rather
they can land an airplane. You know, the pilot pops
out or the flight attendant rather gets on the on
the horn says the pilot had the fish, the co
pilot had the fish. Is there anybody on board who
can land this plane? Surely you can't be serious, I
am stop calling me, Shirley Roner. Do you think you
could do it? Well, Reese Meyer, I would prefer not
(11:11):
to try. Well, yeah, we're we're not like willing this
to happen. I mean, I don't want to try open
heart surgery on somebody either. There are things that professionals
do for a reason. This is totally true. I think
I'm more excited to try to land an airplane than
I would be to do open heart surgery. Yeah, yeah,
because and I think that that's maybe because when you're
(11:31):
more lives at stake, you like that. Well, listen, it's
a it's a mutually assured destruction.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Okay, I think I get your attitude.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You know, if I if I screw up in the
plane situation, it's all over. If I screw up in
the in the the I almost said the iHeart open,
iHeart open surgery, the open heart surgery. Then you know
the kind of lawsuits that come after that. I got
to like tactfully resign from my job. Why was I
in that situation to begin with?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I know we're deep into an anti expert phase of
US history, but I think there's just certain things that
I want the experts to do that I should stay
way the Hello, wait, like engineering, I don't think I
should have any part of.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
No bridge building, leave it to the bridge builders.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Anything to do with nukes, probably let somebody with training
do that.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
No, that doesn't feel That doesn't feel exciting to me either.
That doesn't feel sexy, you know, Like to me, landing
an airplane is like a cool ice man. You know,
it's like that vibe a mushroom cloud.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Not so much.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
No, I played Microsoft Flight Simulator. I mean both, buddy, Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. So I went to a place
called we Fly in Pasadena and I tried it. I
tried it on their seven thirty seven simulator, and you
got to watch the KTLA Morning News tomorrow eight thirty
to find out if I survived. Wait, that was a simulator. Yeah,
I mean, do you think they would have let me fly?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
It looked real. I mean, I want to go to
this thing now that actually looked real.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
They didn't let me come to the Dodgers parade, let
alone put me behind the controls of a fifty million
dollar aircraft.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Well how about Assessna make sure.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, that's again one of those mutually assured destruction things
where the relative damage is a lot lower. But it
was cool and like you, Sam, I have also I
grew up playing video games. I grew up playing flight simulator,
and I do like airplanes, so maybe that puts me
in a little bit of an advantage, but it was
really cool. The guys that we fly Pasadena were able
to set aside some time for us to go check
(13:27):
out the simulator and do our worst as they say,
so that will be going up tomorrow as well, in
addition to the broadcast, also on the Instagram account at
Andy KTLA, which you can reach me by the way
if you'd like to. On the Instagram account, or you
can find me on a Kfi app. Leave a little message,
a little talk back message, look for the microphone, and
(13:47):
let us know what we've what we've got wrong so far.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I played Top Gun on Nintendo.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Yeah, landing the plane on the flight deck in that
game was one of the hardest things that you can do.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Trust me, real landing of a plane. Got nothing on this. Okay,
I didn't want to have to play this card, but
I'm just gonna lay it out here. Richard Bach, the
author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, took me up in his
plane and he handed me the controls and I flew
it for a good long time. Hey, and when you're
in the air and you don't have to worry about
landing or taking off, it's pretty easy when there's nothing
(14:20):
else around. I got to worry about it hidden, and
so I would you give the handle handles? You know,
a little jerk like, Hey, how do you like that?
You won't want to have me try this. Let's let's
see what you think of this.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, you know, I think it is kind of I
obviously it's a very it's a highly skilled job. Nobody
can just pop into an airplane and fly. But I
think that there is something maybe intuitive about it. If
you if you drive a car, you know, I mean,
you're kind of doing similar things. I'm sure there's pilots
who are like, shut up, you are so wrong. But
(14:53):
I've always felt that it came to me in a
sort of natural way.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Well, it was not lost on me that when he
handed me the controls, we were like in the middle
of a lake and a forest, and there was absolutely
no other sign of life anywhere near it. Like, if
we were gonna go down, we weren't gonna take anybody
with us.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Sure, I'm glad for legal purposes you added that part
to the story. You weren't ever over a congested metropolitan
Seattle or anything.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Like that that might have been reckless. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Hey, by the way, I know we talked about Sizzler
last week. We're gonna get to that in a little bit.
And why Sizzler might be winning the casual steakhouse wars. Yes,
apparently they are being fought on freeway exits across America.
We'll get to that, But I'm gonna go back to
the Dodgers today because this is so interesting. This was
something that was trending on the internet. There's been a
(15:43):
lot of conversations because one of the spectacles of watching
interviews postgame interviews with show Hey o Taani is that
obviously he's communicating through a translator, and everyone's always like,
and I don't know if you've heard this too, but
everyone's like, he can speak English, right, Like, can't he
speak English? Maybe he can, maybe he can't. Maybe he's
gonna learn English, I don't know. And it started to
(16:06):
become something that I was fixated on when I saw
this exchange. He had done an interview I think after
game seven, and of course he had done the interview
with the help of the translator, and so they asked
him a question in English, it gets translated into Japanese,
and then show Hey responds to Japanese and then they
the translator, of course, puts it back to English. At
the end of the interview, they said thanks show Hey,
(16:28):
thanks so much, good job, great job, World series. And
this is what he said, Thank you, guys, thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Did you catch that? Thank you guys, thank you tonight.
It's like a one flow over the cuckoo's nest thing.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That sounded like perfect, like he was just a bro
from Anaheim.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Thank you guys, thank you right shout out to my homies,
like did he slip? So I'm thinking, I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Like, oh my god, this guy speaks English, and I
think that it started to get out and that clip
went viral a little bit. People said I knew it,
someone even saying he might be able to speak perfectly
good English or passable English and using a translator essentially
allows him to be respectful of the American language.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I don't know. It's a theory.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And before we go to break, here was Showy earlier
today doing a bit of a speech at the victory
celebration at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Listen, he is so oh time.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
There's that walkout song.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Hello Hello.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I want to say that I'm so fun I'm his team.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
And then I want to say you guys had a
great as of fancy no I and I'm already I'm
ready to get a another.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Let's see you, let's come, let's go all right. So,
I don't know, maybe not completely fluent, but that's pretty good.
I understood, very exciting. Okay, coming up, we're talking about
Steakhouse's discount Steakhouse chains and how they're doing across this country.
Plus that escape monkey that he was found. Story doesn't
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end well if you're looking for a Pixar ending. By
the way, it's KFIM six forty. We're live everywhere on
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Speaker 1 (18:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It feels good. SKFI AM six forty. Andy Reesemire here
with you. Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app as well.
And if you want to listen to old episodes or
past episodes, and I'm not sure you could call them
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can listen to past episodes on Spotify or the iHeart
(18:57):
Radio app, also available on the Apple Podcast app. It's
very fun. It's cool to go back and listen. I
like to go back and listen to the show, you know,
to sort of get a little get a little perspective
on what I was saying, what I was talking about,
Get I laugh at Ronner's jokes once again.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Are they funnier the second time around? A little? Really?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, it's more like I can I could be in
the audience. No, I'm kidding. I what a psychopath? Can
you imagine? If you like I was listening to this
show like every day going. I listened every once in
a while to see, like how you know, truly to
critique myself, but I don't listening just for fun would
be weird. I always thought it was odd because when
I was in a band back in the day, this
was at a time when you didn't have like streaming services.
(19:42):
Everything was sort of done on CDs. So you would
like make a mix in this in the studio, and
in order to check the mix in the car, right,
That's how like all music needs to be checked in
the car. You gotta check it in the car after
you record in the studio. It always sounds good in
the studio. But then if you know, you can pick
up on stuff in your car. That's why the car
test is so important. But you'd always have to burn
(20:04):
a CDR, so you would always have the hundreds and
hundreds of these cd rs that just were rolling around
the car or whatever that had you know, like andy
song mixed for more vocals or like base two loud
or you know, written in sharpie, and it was like
you had to do that. But I remember being in
the car and like going on a date, like after
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high school, and like switched over from the radio and
it just starts playing my own dumb band and I'm like, oh, sorry.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Excuse me, it's a smooth movie.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I'm sorry about burs.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Turning it up.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Whoops. Yeah, and uh I was unlucky in love for
many years. But maybe it made for some good music.
So I don't know. You suffer for your art. I
suffer for my art. That is right, speaking of suffering
for art. An update on that story about those monkeys
that escaped in Mississippi. Do you remember this last week?
There was a semi truck that was carrying a bunch
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of Reesis monkeys. They were being housed at the Tulane
University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, and they
were scrolling along there in Heidelberg, Mississippi, when the truck
crashed and a handful of these Reeseis monkeys escaped. They
got out a few of them sadly. I don't know,
(21:24):
it feels sad to me because it's a bummer, you know,
it's a bummer that these monkeys were having a live
where they were maybe being tested, they were used for
research purposes. A few of them were euthanized there along
the roadway, but a couple of them escaped and were
just running wild. And if you remember, the county Sheriff's
department at the time had said that they were infected
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with I believe hepatitis, COVID and herpes.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
A bad combo.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That's a tough night.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Did they shoot the herpes monkey? Okay?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Well, then Tulane said they weren't sick or they were
said to be not contagious. This is a very important specific, you.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Know, I've heard that line before. Yeah, better safe than
sorry when it comes to wild monkey's on the loose,
not contagious.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But anyway, a couple of days go by, and unfortunately, unfortunately,
we know what happened to one of the missing monkeys.
Jessica bon Ferguson, a homeowner in Heidelberg, Mississippi, was alerted
Sunday early Sunday morning by her sixteen year old son,
who said he thought he had seen a monkey running
in the yard outside of their home with a cold
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sore on his He was coffee, he was wearing a
mask in coughing. He kept taking tests and being like,
I know that the line, you can see it, but
it's very faint. It's very faint. So she got out
of bed like any person in rural Mississippi, I'm assuming
we do, grabbed her firearm, and then she went after
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the monkey. Monkey was about sixty feet away. She said,
I did what any other mother would do to protect
her children, because she says she and other people in
the neighborhood have been warned about the diseases that the
escape monkeys carried. So she fired her gun. She said,
I shot at it and it stood there. I shot again,
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and he backed up, and that's when he fell. Jasper
County Sheriff's office confirmed in a social media post that
a homeowner had found one of the monkeys, but they
did not say anymore. There were more, no more details
this time after the first time that we heard that
they had let out a bunch of diseased Reese's monkeys.
Apparently now we're being mom on what's the what the
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details are there?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
So okay, So you know that Patrick's side is the
word for killing your father, at Mattter's side killing your mother,
And there's all sorts of different names and killing different things.
You know what the word is for killing monkeys? What
is a monkey side? Is it? Really?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It's like just what it is you said.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
No, no, no, that's the word. That's actually just what
it is.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Oh no, great, all right, Well on that note, that's
the that's the kind of news that I wanted to
do when I got into this industry.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
And the monkey's like, you really don't need to worry
about anything unless it's a flare up. Please don't shoot out.
It's I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
If I am six forty, we're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app on Andy Reesmier. Thanks for being with us
on this Monday evening, November three. Portions of the program
are prerecorded. But this is not one of those portions.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Right right, No it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Hey, mister Ronner, Yes, mister Reesemeyer, you know, we had
a lot of fun talking about Sizzler last week.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
How could you not? We could do all show on Sizsler.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
If you don't remember, I just want to bring you
into this here real quick, Richie. Did you know about Sizzler? Yeah,
I produced it for you. You were here that night, Yeah,
no you weren't. Yeah, we started taking calls. No it
was Toddler, wasn't it. It was it was you.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Okay, I'm sorry. I'm a terrible friend. It's a good
thing he's got such healthy self esteem.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, because how awful of a diva?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Just a tyrant, just a tad bit. Okay, So remember Richie.
This moment from nineteen ninety one a promotional commercial. I
don't know where they used this, but it's four minutes
and forty one seconds long. You can find it on YouTube.
It's called Sizzler promotional commercial and it's all about the
joys of how American Sizzler really is.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Choices, the choice.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Choices, choices every day. So the assumption here was that
you might go to Sissler every day.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
That is a rousing and emotional anthem. It's not just
a song, it's an anthem. To turn it down a
little bit. It's so harsh. I wanted to take out
Sizzler and sing that.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You know, I guarantee you nobody at the Sizzler would
have a clue, but they might appreciate your performance.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I don't know why that didn't catch on, like the
I'd like to buy the world a coke song. Yes,
that's a hell of a song. I'll tell you what we.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Have given whoever is wrote this song more airplay in
the past two weeks than of all times, and this
song has ever been heard of all time, I think.
But Sizzler, you know, it's just one of the sort
of discount steakhouses that, as we found out, actually he's
doing okay relatively speaking. Right, we thought Sizzler was for
sure out of business, but we had a lot of
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people call and saying, no, there's one in Van Eyes,
there's one in Woodland Hills, there's one in Arlita, I think,
and lo and behold, they'rebsolutely right. There's a lot of
Sisslers out there. But Ponderosa is not doing so well.
Do you remember Ponderosa?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It might have also been called a Bonanza.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
After the TV show.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yes, it was started in nineteen sixty five. And where
do you guess where? Could you guess where might I
put a story that would be from? Where I might
also be from? I give up Indiana? Okay, So yeah,
they made a steakhouse in Indiana called Bonanza based on
the television show. Right nineteen sixty five. This was probably groundbreaking.
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It was legendary, and of course it was great because
it was a low cost option to you know, go
to a sort of somewhat fancy. You know, it's not
like your filet mignon, but to have like a nice
steak of potato situation. Of course there was h is
this bonanza? Oh yeah, of.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Course was this song playing as you ate steak?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I hope it was. This is up there with with
the Sizzler song, which you'd have a bracket of good
old restaurant songs and see who would win. Even good
in the neighborhood's got to be up there. What is
that applebee that's Applebee's, okay? And then Applebee's has a
new song which I do not subscribe to bet Jillian
(28:15):
and date not anything you know I talk about.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't care for that Applebee's anything like, No, I'm
not for it. But does Pondorosa is struggling? They are
now down to I guess something like twenty restaurants, and
Ponderosa was pretty common. I think back in the nineties
they had like seven hundred locations across the country.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
We must save them. It's what Haws and Little John
would want you to do. That's right.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Here's the challenge this week. I want everybody listening, go
ahead and go on OpenTable dot com, call your American
Express Rezie hook up and get yourself a table at
the Ponderosa on Tuesday, the Sizzler on Wednesday, back to
Pondorosa on Thursday, and then maybe throwing a little Applebee's
on Friday with the chicken fry.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But and it's a bummer because it was also a
great opportunity. And you got to think these restaurants nowadays
are so expensive that that the middle ground really feels
like a fertile place to be where you can have
a competent meal, a Boston market quality meal for not
a crazy price.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
By the way, it's Little Joe. I was mistaken and said, okay,
Little John. It's Little Joe.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Little John is a completely different situation. You don't want
to go to the Little John after a Ponderosa meal. No,
that's right, you don't. You might, you might not have
a choice in certain places. The last thing I'll say
here on that note about Ponderosa is that when I
was a kid, we had a Ponderosa that we would
go to in Castleton, Indianapolis. It was like in the
parking lot of the mall, you know, I mean, that's
how everything is out there, and Ponderosa was a big
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deal because we didn't really go out to eat as kids.
You know, it was like a big deal to go
out to eat. So we went to this Ponderosa and
you'd wait in line and they gave you one of it. It
was like a buffet situation. So you got a tray
and you go through the line and you put your
your food on these bits big old hot ceramic plates.
You know, they like pop up from the little tray,
you know, and you get a new one, and then
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another one comes cascading up. It's like it's fat stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
And as a kid, it's incredible and you think.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
All this food. I could eat all this food.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
And we're waiting in line, and I was probably four
or five, I don't know, very young, like like I
kind of remember this happening in real life, or I
might just remember it because the story was told so
much throughout throughout my life. Some kid is walking by
with a plate, a tray full of those plates, dirty ones,
and he slips on the terra cotta tile and those
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plates go fly in, crashing everywhere. And as a four
or five year old, that's horrifying. That's the scariest thing
you've ever heard, and to this day my family, anytime
a plate breaks anywhere, it is absolutely necessary if you're
a respired to say, proclaim Ponderosa.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Nice. See you never saw Old Hop sing do that
on the show.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah, imagine if it had been Bananza at least that
would have made more sense. You imagine a whole group
of people nowadays at a restaurant somewhere somebody drops a
plate on the other side and everyone at the table goes, ponderosa.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I want a bunch of dweebs. Oh that's your restaurant
entertainment right there. You kidding.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Somebody goes homes like man, there was the weirdest thing
I ever saw at does applebe'st tonight so much coming
up in the next hour, We're going to open those
phone lines in a little bit and I'm going to
have a prompt if you want to call and be
on the show. We love hearing from you. We were
doing favorite movies of All Time, remember that that was
a good one. We had a lot of great calls
on that. We did restaurants, we did classic restaurants. We'll
(31:44):
talk about what we were going to have you call
and talk about in the eight o'clock hour, plus what
is tunnel mode? Why is Portia now coming out with
a tunnel mode? And then the latest on of course
some election news. Got a big election happening tomorrow California.
Of course, we're keeping track of Prop fifty and also
looking at that mayoral race in New York City. It's
(32:05):
all coming up in the next hour here on KFI
AM six forty, We're we live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
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